These audios were created during Duolingo Events and transcribed with the attendees.
The near future
S1: I think that our near future depends on us, and it depends on our choices which we do in present. S2: I believe having a goal for your future or your near future and living in the moment doesn’t contradict each other. Because having a goal and planning for your future it’s like walking in the way or a path. And you have to choose it carefully. Living in the moment it’s like enjoying the abuse. S3: We all have plans and it’s great to make plans for the future. And picture something you want to do in your head. But you have to prepare for a moment you have to work it in the moment and that and that’s what matter in the moment. Not the future or the pass. S2:
COMMENTS
– the article is always needed in ‘the near future’
– ‘enjoying the abuse’ should read ‘enjoying the views’
S1: What do you think will happen in near future?
S 2: Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
S 3: What do you mean by Antibiotic resistance? **
S 2: it’s caused by misuse and overuse of antibiotics, when this happens completely, There gonna be a crisis more serious and more dangerous than Covid pandemic in near future.
S 1: One positive thing that I think will happen, in near future is that because of the research on the Corona virus we’ll have a vaccine about cancer.
S 4: and second positive thing, I guess internet connection will be much more cheaper, due to Elon Musk’s project calls “one web”. In near future in my opinion, we will have, still will happen, trouble with pandemic. It’s very popular I think in nowadays. And there is lots of reason to continue this one. And positive way is space tourism will became cheaper.
S 2: The negative thing is antibiotic resistance in bacteria it’s very serious. And the good thing is going to be Gene therapy. Because we will gonna be able to treat so many genetic disorders and diseases such as diabetes.
S 3: In the future I believe that the communication in the near future. The communication like a technology. So technology will improve our communication as people. So far as you can see like technology has made people much closer. So I believe with technology it will like help many people get this opportunity when they like to study and also like to learn languages and also meet their friends, without spending a lot of time and a lot of money to do this. On the negatives are, I think the world will go to a war, because in the recent future we have seen like there is like a lot of like disagreements in between the countries. So there may be a third world war probably.
COMMENTS
– ** = the word is ‘elaborate’
– we can have ‘a vaccine for cancer’ or ‘a vaccine against cancer’
– it’d be best to call the pandemic ‘widespread’ or ‘common’ rather than ‘popular’
A picture of mine
s1: Wow great photo of Venice have you ever visit Venice?
s2: No I haven’t visit it Venice yet
s3: No me neither, I haven’t been to Venice also
s1: No I haven’t, but Venice is in my bucket list
s2: Fantastic, it is in my bucket list too, Venice
s3: So for longest time I have had Chile in my bucket list of countries that I would like to visit
[Say ‘visited Venice’]
[Say ‘on my bucket list’]
S1: These pictures are to pay homage to my favourite movies.
S2: This photo is a picture from a Greek painter about the Greek Revolution that happened around 1821 and it is about the Greek independence that was recognised by the main…the great powers at that time in 1830.
S3: This IMAGE is my son and me. It was taken when we went to my eldest brother’s farm. We went there 3 months ago with my wife and my son. We went there to help my brother and enjoy the scenery.
Fashion
S1: For me fashion depends on the taste of the person. If you like something comfortable or something uncomfortable, you would wear whatever you want. It’s based on what you like and what you believe in.
S2: Fashion can be applied not only to clothes but to anything that’s popular
S1: I wouldn’t say I’m a fashion person or someone who always watches fashion events and follows fashion news. But I just like to wear anything that POPS INTO MY MIND, anything that I’m comfortable in, it doesn’t matter the style. Sometimes, I would love this style, next day I would wear something else, so it depends on the mood and how comfortable the clothes are.
S3: Fashion affects women more and it’s related to a style of clothing.
S1: I think fashion is evolving also like any other field, it used to be centred around women but now I think all people of all genders and all races and all ethnicities have now their own fashion. And now they can express themselves through fashion just like any other things like music or acting you can express yourself with clothing.
S2: Fashion goes away and comes back after a few years. In the 70s fashion was more universal and changed more slowly than nowadays.
S1:I don’t like fashion but sometimes I enjoy watching catwalks
S2:I don’t like fashion as well as well this is just a business and this is not my business but it looks very quite pretty but been up do you want to be a model in the fashion business
S1:this is not something that I want this is something that I can’t because I’m not that much attractive or that much skinny so no matter what I want I can’t
S2:no no no you look like a model you need just to be more confident what kind of clothes would you like to create I would like to create for me I would like to create overalls or snowsuits